Posts Tagged ‘as3’

Being an enthusiastic fan of Smash Hit, one of the best mobile game experiences i’ve ever experienced till now, (and not to mention the fact that someone here also put up a post of smash hit retro demake), i decided to try my hand in breaking stuff using NAPE physics engine for AS3.

Here’s a little Dev-log of it for those who are interested (i hope to do more tutorial on it in my Blog MonsterBrainInc.)
I’ve previously developed cutting mechanism with Cut-it : Flash Version, and i decided to use it for cutting the blocks into several random pieces. But things didn’t worked out pretty well and the code just grown into un manageable size. SO i scrapped everything and started looking for voronoi stuff (I’ve seen a lot of demo tests, but was too afraid to look into it). After many links deep, links within links, i found some as3 library and one sample stuff. I took the code that just worked well for me (Thanks to the sample codes) & looks good. Next challenge was to break the stuff which involves lot of positioning, head work etc etc. Still i’m happy & proud with the result i’ve achieved. Finishing the Game was the hardest part. All kinds of blocks, disorientation, tiredness, powercut, disinterest etc were active towards finishing the game. But got through all that and finished the game. Enjoy Smashing.

It feels great to have you guys around making awesome games and sharing your experiences. Me, I’m Monster Brain (!realName), an indie game developer from india. I missed last LD, looking forward to the next. Meanwhile trying to come up with a Smash-Hit (loved the game so MUCH) demake. I’ve seen the previous blog post of another smash hit demake (it looks cool with pixelated graphics).

Here’s a little work in progress.

I’m using As3, Starling, Flashdevelop and Nape physics for the game. Shattering the glass was the hard challenge i had to face, somehow with the help of voronoi diagrams (thanks to an excellent library by alan shaw & example model by its haxe ported(from another port) guy), got it somewhat right. Hoping to make some interesting levels.

Firstly, i wanted to find an innovative idea with the theme. I didn’t want to make a classic game in which you only get one life or one ammunition.. or something that simple. However, I didn’t achieve to get something better than a poor joke that nobody laugh about ^^

But i had so much fun developping my game that i decided to make a post compo version. To call your curiosity and show you what i planned to do, take a look to some special effects screenshots ;=)

Hey all! I’ve been enjoying a lot of games from this Ludum Dare, and I hope you all have to. I participated myself in the jam, collaborating with another indie game dev known as Code_Assassin. However, through details I’ll explain below, we didn’t finish. While we did submit an entry, it wasn’t a finished game like we hoped, and after a day of thought, we requested the entry to be taken down, and the game removed from Newgrounds.

The idea

Our game originally started off with a premise of finding a mob boss out of a group of people, the levels and the clues would be random each time, but you only had one chance at killing the boss. We agreed on using Flixel as our framework due to its ease of use, my experience from using it in last year’s Ludum Dare and CA’s experience with Actionscript3, and that we could upload it to the web. We got a Git repository set up and we were hyped up and ready to go!

Kmembert (Camembert: A delicious french cheese) is a puzzle/infiltration/action game . The gameplay is quite simple: You are a cheese and you have to kill all nazi mice in one shoot. Get the cannon bullet and trick the mice in order to kill them all in a single shoot. 9 levels are playable. HAVE FUN ^^!

Post mortem

It was my first Ludum Dare compo. I just be informed of the event 4 days ago. My weekend was busy but I was motivated to create a simple game saturday morning with the theme “You only get one”. I already participed to the “Global Game Jam” twice, but the Ludum Dare is a different challenge.
I cumulate 17 hours of work for this game.

Gameplay
I found the idea in the first minutes: Get the only one bullet, trick the enemies to manage to kill them all in a single shoot.
The controls are simple and the top view allows to create less graphic assets and less code. I’m a big fan of “Metal gear solid” and I recently played “Hotline Miami”. So I unconsciously designed game mechanics with this game in my mind. I always wanted to design a game like Metal Gear Solid :). Therefore mice can run after you if they see you and you can play with the doors.

Level DesignI modified the mouse behaviours 2 hours before the deadline. So I redesigned the levels accoring the modifications.
I tried to design 9 levels with interesting challenge. I think the levels are fun and you also can understand all puzzles quickly. But I had no time to playtest the levels to another players. That’s why the game needs different mice with different behaviours and more balance.

GraphicsI didn’t want to use human characters, zombies, aliens or monsters. So I decided to imagine a coherent situation with uncomon characters according to the game mechanics. A humanoid cheese against nazi mice ? Why not :). I’m not a 2d artist but I tried to design simple characters and animations quickly. A pen tablet is a good tool :).

SoundsUnfortunatly I didn’t have the time to play on my guitar some cool riffs for the background music. The sound fx are just simple homemade sounds of my mouth :).

ToolsI’m a Flash game developer since 2004 so I create all assets, animations and code with Flash. I used the World Construction Kit library. It’s the Box2D physic engine with a WYSIWYG layout, very usefull to design levels. I also used simple libs : TweenMax, Flint. I used “Flash Develop” and I created some assets with Photoshop and Audition.

Conslusion

It was a great experience! Sometimes I watched streams of few developers around the world. I also earn some skills in code with box2d and in graphic design. I found my game interesting but it needs improvements :).

It was tiring, and frustrating on occasion, but mainly it was pretty fun and I can’t wait to give it another try!

I just wish I had learned more before starting, because I lost a lot of time learning to do some stuff for the first time, and it made me waste time on silly mistakes and work slower overall. I couldn’t do as much as I wanted, but oh well, I definitely learned a lot (although I left my code real messy :x).

In Monochrome You Only Get One color at a time. The one-colored world you see is the world you are in, but periodically the channel changes and you have to deal with another one-colored world, so be sure to move in time to arrive at an adequate position in the following color (or you may even end up stuck in walls until the world changes)! I hope you enjoy this little platformer!

game title: Wifes
almost finished implementing game engine. Player and women interact as they have to. Still working on bad guys :). No another screenshot , because all day I was working on deep engine stuff, preparing all framework from scratch.

Some more info: your target will be to reach point goal as fast as possible by marrying and divorcing with women. There will some challenges , like enemies – random guys from nowhere – who can take your place by marrying another women and not letting you to get enough points to win. Also there will be enemies-guys , who will be able to steal your wife and as you know – you only get one wife at the time :). Tomorrow top priorities: to finish bad guy class and start working on graphics and sound.

After a complete failure of an attempt to use the Phaser javascript library, I’m back to using comfortable old AS3 with FlashPunk.

The game idea I decided to go with is that you’re the only crew member of a ramshackle submarine. You have to dash between posts to prevent the thing from sinking. So far, it gradually fills with water, and you can operate the bilge pump to drain it. This probably makes it the only Ludum Dare game with an operatable bilge pump.

I decided to make a LD48 game too! It’s about trying to dock a spaceship into a fuel station with realistic Box2D physics for extra QWOP-iness. You have one tiny fuel tank and limited electric charge. The realistic physics make it hard to simply move and dock, but you still need to dock to the station before you run out of electric charge or fuel.

The fuel station and fuel/charge gauges aren’t implemented yet, but you can fly the spacecraft with WASD.